Climate change is the most important issue now facing humanity. As global temperatures increase, floods, fires and storms are becoming both more intense and frequent. People are suffering. And yet, emissions continue to rise. This book unpacks the activities of the key actors which have organised past and present climate responses – specifically, corporations, governments, and civil society organisations. Analysing three elements of climate change – mitigation, adaptation and suffering – t...

My Final Flight (Overcoming P.T.S.D.) explains how I overcame thirty years of shell-shock, (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). I wrote this story in 1989 - thirty years after my traumatic jet plane crash. In doing so I had to force myself, and desperately fight, to relive that experience - and then write it down in detail, which took over one month of sheer absolute agony. To separate myself I wrote it in third-person. This separation was of very considerable aid in my recovery from the clut...

Dave (A True Story) refers to a most interesting experience Elizabeth and I incurred recently. It is a story of human kindness and generosity without restriction or condition that we received from a total stranger. That stranger was a first nation Piikani gentleman who works at the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Head Smashed in Buffalo Jump' near Fort MacLeod, Southern Alberta, Canada. His name is Dave and lives on the Piikani reservation next to the UNESCO site. This site is part of their he...

How did an aristocrat in his 50's lose his heritage and ancestry? Why was he not informed of his great aunt's illness, death, lying-in-state and funeral? Why were his parents forced apart, their marriage disallowed and cancelled? Why was his mother kidnapped? How was Hitler involved? How did his great aunt's (The Duchess) fight to stop Hitler end? Why, at age six months, was he removed from Europe and his identity changed? How did he lose his birthrights? Why did his father abdicate the th...

Climate change is one of the greatest threats facing humanity, a definitive manifestation of the well-worn links between progress and devastation. This book explores the complex relationship that the corporate world has with climate change and examines the central role of corporations in shaping political and social responses to the climate crisis. The principal message of the book is that despite the need for dramatic economic and political change, corporate capitalism continues to rely o...

Är vi på väg mot en framtid utan antibiotika? Vad innebär i så fall denna postantibiotiska framtid för mänskligheten?Antibiotikaresistens är en av vår tids mest akuta samhällsutmaningar. I vissa länder finns redan bakterier som står emot nästan all antibiotika, och globalt sett orsakar resistensen hundratusentals dödsfall årligen. Problemen ökar också i Sverige, där vår moderna sjukvård bygger på att vi har tillgång till effektiv antibiotika. I en framtid utan antibiotika behöver v...